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Abolition & Revolution. Barzun (TIME cover, June 11, 1956) ascribes this self-extinction to two influences that conflict with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and...
The brief dismissal given Radcliffe's abolition of PT by the mentors of Harvard's Freshman year is aggravating and unenlightened: aggravating because it is based on reasons so poor that blind conservatism seems the real motivation, unenlightened because the PT policy is annoying, inconvenient, insulting, and expensive.
Their best showing was on the question of whether or not to condemn the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a traditional scapegoat of the NSA. A conservative resolution that advocated reform rather than abolition of the committee failed by only 236 to 216, although the eventually successful resolution to...
This is one reason why the much-used phrase "Educational experiment" is mostly intellectual cotton candy. The other reason is the politics of making educational policy. An energetic administrator like McGeorge Bundy can push a remarkably popular program past the CEP and the Faculty; the one-quarter who opposed Soph...
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people. The people cannot be really happy until it has been deprived of illusory happiness by the abolition of religion.